Tortured

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Bogotá, Colombia, December 22, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the conviction of a former high-ranking Colombian intelligence official who on December 19 was sentenced to 11 years in prison for carrying out a campaign of aggression and death threats against investigative journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, according to news reports.

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New
York, April 18, 2013--The cases of an Iranian blogger imprisoned for seven months
without trial and a prominent freelance journalist whose health has deteriorated
in prison illustrate the ongoing abuses being perpetrated by Iranian authorities,
the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat is wielding his pen once more. According to news reports, the famous cartoonist, who suffered a severe beating in August, has regained 90 percent of the movement in his hands, which were deliberately targeted by his attackers before they dumped him on the side of a road.

On September 4, 2010, Pakistani journalist Umar Cheema was
abducted as he was going home after a dinner with friends near Islamabad. He
was held captive for more than six hours, during which he was tortured by
masked individuals. He was told to stop criticizing the government in the
articles he wrote for the English-language daily The News and was dumped
the next day by his car. (CPJ has
covered his case extensively.)

Seven months after his ordeal, Cheema traveled to the United States and stopped by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism to talk to students about the dangers of reporting in his country.

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World leaders like to invoke terms such as press freedom,
human rights, and the rule of law in their speeches, especially to international
audience. But in post-Soviet Eurasia, such high-minded words are rarely accompanied
by genuine action. A recent commentary in The
Washington Post by Roza
Otunbayeva, president of Kyrgyzstan, is a testament to this pattern.

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When Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporter Robert Tait
was taken
into custody by Egyptian authorities at a police checkpoint near central
Cairo on February 4, he didn't know he'd become witness to torture. But, cuffed
and blindfolded for 28 hours, Tait heard and saw beatings and electrocutions. "My
experience, while highly personal, wasn't really about me or the foreign media,"
Tait
writes in the U.K. Guardian. " It
was about gaining an insight--if that is possible behind a blindfold--into the
inner workings of the Mubarak regime." It is exactly that kind of insight that
can be gained when reporters are allowed to do their jobs, and it is why CPJ
exists--to fiercely defend the rights of journalists to do their work. Take a
read of our recent Egypt coverage here
to get a sense of the massive scale in which journalists have been attacked and
detained, and see Tait's whole piece in the Guardian here.

February 10, 2011 10:37 AM ET

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New York, February 7, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists is
concerned about the well-being of two Ivorian journalists who have been
detained without charge for 10 days amid reports that they have been tortured
in custody.

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New York, December 17, 2010--Musa Saidykhan, who was detained for three weeks in 2006 by Gambian state security agents, was tortured and must receive compensation, a West African regional court ruled on Thursday.

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Just in case you were one of the few people in Pakistan or any other part of the world, for that matter, who thought that the six-hour abduction of Umar Cheema over the weekend of September 4 and 5 in Islamabad was going to be investigated and the culprits--men "dressed in police uniform"--brought to justice, here is a reality check: